Blog Articles

“Heavy Technology: The Process of Technological Diffusion over Time and Space,” VoxEU, November 2012 (with Diego Comin and Esteban Rossi-Hansberg)

Research Experience

Research Intern, Economic Expert Group, Fall 2007.
Responsibilities: I constructed the optimal currency basket as an anchor for the national currency peg, to minimize the distortions for the effective exchange rate.

Referee Service

Journal of Economic Geography
Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control
Economica

Honors, Awards, & Fellowships

Dissertation Fellowship Award, Boston College, 2012.
Dissertation Fellowship Award, Boston College, 2011.
Oxford Russia Fund Scholarship for Outstanding Academic Achievements, Higher School of Economics, 2007 and 2008.
Research Grant of Russian Government “Analysis of Fertility in Russia” (with A. Lukyanova, A. Belyanin), 2007 and 2008.
Potanin Fund Scholarship, Higher School of Economics (given to 20 out of 3000 students), 2005.
Scholarship of The President of Russia for Outstanding Students (given to 60 students out of all high school graduates in Russia), 2004.
First (absolute) Prize in All-Russian High School Economics Competition at the school, district, state, country level (more than 10, 000 participants), 2004.